Since this pandemic was declared in March and states began shutting down, there has been so much disinformation and confusion that innumerable conspiracy theories have been hatched.
It’s a hoax. Well, in spite of trump uttering those words in February, COVID is not a hoax. Shortly after WHO declared COVID a pandemic on March 11, 2020, Rob came down with what we thought was the flu. He thought he’d caught it at an imaging center where he had to get medical clearance for an elective surgery. He was sick for nearly 3 weeks. In late April, during a blood workup, his doctor tested him for corona antibodies. He had them. Several days later, we drove to a Dystopian testing center, got the swab test, and the results came in three days later. We were both negative.
About three weeks ago, my sister, Mary, texted me that she, her older son, his wife, and her mother, had all tested positive for COVID. Her son had been exposed to a colleague who had tested positive. This was in Georgia, which opened nearly as early as Florida. They’ve all recovered without hospitalizations, without UV lights up their butts, without
hydroxychloroquine.
The virus is a media coverup for something else. This idea in itself implies a conspiracy of some sort. I don’t have any idea which conspiracy this is – take your pick, there’re enough of then circulating. But we’ve all seen the images from inside hospitals, on the streets. We’ve seen images of the refrigerated trucks for the excess of dead bodies. If this is a coverup for something else, then all those images would have been staged, right?
Seriously?
It’s all an attempt to make trump look bad. There’s no need to stage anything to make trump look bad. He does a fine job of that on his own. From April 24:
The cases numbers aren’t as high as what’s being reported. As proof of this, a person who identifies himself/herself only as Q sent me this link from the Palm Beach Post, which basically explains how some deaths in the country that have been attributed to COVID are caused by something else. Which is why I don’t trust government sites – national or local.
Rebekah Jones, the scientist responsible for the corona dashboard for the Florida Department of Health, refused to lower the case numbers so that Governor DeSantis could justify opening the state. She has since started her own dashboard
I trust her figures over the Florida Dept of Health. I also trust the Worldometer website, not run by any government. The comments of the person who sent me that link can be found under this post on our blog:
He/she isn’t the first, but they all fit a particular mold. They’re smarter than everyone else because they see what’s really going on (again, take your pick of conspiracies). They admonish everyone else to “think for themselves,” the media feeds us bullshit, this is all about 5G and Bill Gates and the vaccine will be their way of controlling us. These people are often the same ones who refuse to wear masks (but buckle up in their cars) and, as Karens, act out in public places when they’re asked to put on masks. My constitutional rights…blah, blah.
As chaotic election day nears, it’s all beginning to feel like that famous line in one of my favorite Dystopian novels, The Hunger Games: Let the games begin…
There’s no national plan for dealing with this pandemic, for reopening schools, there’s not even a mask mandate. States and cities have different plans. But the only plan you can count on is the one you and your family and friends make for yourselves. It’s a different version of The Hunger Games.
